Mental illness rarely improves on its own and we must not turn a blind eye.

Although there are constitutional impediments to institutionalizing troubled people, we need to open a path of learning, hearing and understanding.

It is the essence of Americana to breed quirky individualists that march to the tune of a different drummer.

Yeah freedom!

Quirkiness is not what we're talking about.

When our laissez-faire approach to mental illness allows massacres such as what occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School, we still have freedom, all right.

It's the freedom to be horrified.

The American Care Act provides more resources for mental health care, but we need to start with providers willing to see these troubled souls and health care providers willing to cover the expense of treatment.

We need to tear down what many experts call our decrepit mental health infrastructure.

Recognition and treatment are our only hope. Those eyes looking back at us, now from beyond, are counting on it.